Just when we thought that Facebook could not put a foot wrong, rather like Google of the first five years, they overstepped the mark with Beacon and now James over at The Laboratorium has come up with interesting reasoning to condemn Facebook and Blockbuster for breaking the law by collecting and distributing video rental information in an ‘opt-out’ scheme, incriminating stuff. And if the sums of Mark from Mashable are anything to go by, the two companies could be in [...]

Graham Erskine – Operations Director – NCP, attempting to justify an increase in parking charges at it’s car parks in Cardiff city centre from £2.80 for 2 hours to £3.40 per hour. “We believe the new system is much better for local traders.”

I wonder how much the South Wales Echo was paid to make this look like a legitimate news story? It’s kind of intriguing how now not only the corners of the page can be bought, but also a headline and text that fools the reader into thinking that it is another news article. Is this common practice now? Did I miss a meeting? Sales Appointment [icWales]

With TV-Links being raided and shut down in a blaze of glory, it leaves us to ponder the question, who is next? This weekend, TV-Links.co.uk was closed down in a joint operation between multiple European police forces, FACT, Trading Standards and other government agencies, for being an intermediary to copyright theft. Whilst “Sin”, from Cheltenham, Gloucs, owner and creator of the website, was spending his weekend at Her Majesty’s pleasure, police in the Netherlands were pulling plugs on servers hosting [...]

Is there anything that hasn’t been said about the decision made by Radiohead to release their latest album download only, and to apply a psuedo-honesty box programme to the payment system? I will say, however, that I don’t believe that it is an honesty box in it’s true form, as many pundits have been declaring. As in essence there is no set price, it isn’t relied upon that people use their concience to decide whether or not to short change [...]